Actress, singer
Patricia Morison

Patricia Morison is an American stage and motion picture actress and mezzo-soprano singer. She made her feature film debut in 1939 after several years on the stage. During her time as a screen actress she was lauded for her patrician beauty, with her large eyes and extremely long, dark hair among her most notable physical attributes. During this period of her career, she was often cast as the femme fatale or "other woman.

Twenty-four Youngstown district youngsters join the cast of Kenley Players in Warren as children in “The King and I,” starring Patricia Morison and Ted Scott. The children are Ricky Childress, Denise Barnes, Patty Chanson, Alane Chanson, Jim Rowland,

''It was really terribly important after the war when all the young men needed contacting,'' Sir Arthur Conan Doyle says rather breezily on camera during a 10-minute address he delivers on a DVD recently released by Focusfilm, a distributor in Ossining, N.Y. It was 1926, and by his remarks and manner the writer clearly wants to be done with his

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MATTHEW BRODERICK canceled at the last minute and Katie Couric didn't show. There was only one camera crew, and several audience members failed to come in black tie. But there was electricity in the air nonetheless as limousines pulled up and people crowded the sidewalk under the marquee for opening night of ''Kiss Me, Kate.'' Opening night on

Joan Kibric was crying, and so was Ethel Watt. Heck, even Herb Fields, tall, handsome Herb Fields, the sole remaining ''boy singer,'' was crying, weeping so hard he had to leave his seat. The occasion was the reunion last week of most of the survivors of the original cast of ''Kiss Me, Kate,'' the Cole Porter musical getting a well-received revival

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In conjunction with her 100th birthday, the Pasadena Playhouse sponsored an evening with Patricia Morison on March 15, 2015, including an audience Q & A session and selections from Kiss Me, Kate performed by the guest of honor.

She lives in Los Angeles, California, where she celebrated her 100th birthday on March 19, 2015.

2014

Age 98

In March 2014, at age 99, she appeared onstage for Broadway Backwards 9, a benefit for Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS and the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Community Center at the Al Hirschfeld Theater.

On November 18, 1999, Morison attended the opening night performance of the successful Kiss Me, Kate Broadway revival, the first such revival in New York, starring Brian Stokes Mitchell and Marin Mazzie (in the role Morison originated in 1948).

She also appeared with Howard Keel in a production of Kate on British television in 1964.

1958

Age 42

Morison and Alfred Drake recreated their Kiss Me, Kate roles in a Hallmark Hall of Fame production of the play broadcast in color on November 20, 1958.

THIRTIES

1954

Age 38

Morison also appeared in General Foods 25th Anniversary Show: A Salute to Rodgers and Hammerstein broadcast March 28, 1954 on all four American TV networks of the time.

Lawrence was subsequently replaced by Celeste Holm, Constance Carpenter, Annamary Dickey, and finally Morison, who appeared in The King and I until its Broadway closing on March 20, 1954, and then continued with the production on the national tour, which included a stop at the Los Angeles Civic Light Opera (from May 5, 1954).

In 1935, four years before her official film debut, Morison made her first appearance on film in an automobile propaganda short, Wreckless.

1933

Age 17

Morison made her stage debut at the Provincetown Playhouse in the musical revue Don't Mind the Rain, in which she sang a song "Simple Silly I." Her Broadway debut came in November 1933, with a short-lived play, Growing Pains.

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